[PATCH] D64943: [Clang][OpenMP offload] Eliminate use of OpenMP linker script

Wed Sep 11 12:21:06 PDT 2019

JonChesterfield added a comment.

In D64943#1666673 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D64943#1666673>, @ABataev wrote:

> In D64943#1666658 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D64943#1666658>, @JonChesterfield wrote:
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> > > OpenMP linker script is known to cause problems for gold and lld linkers on Linux and it will also cause problems for Windows enabling in future
> >
> > What are the known problems with the linker script? I'm wondering if they can be resolved without the overhead of introducing a new tool.
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> They just do not support linker script. And, thus, cannot be used for offloading. Only `ld` supports it.

In what respect? I've used linker scripts with both gold and lld, and both instances of --help text claim to support them. In the case of lld, a very complicated script hit a few internal errors, but I believe they've all been fixed since.

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